Re: observe soyuz rocket and later progress spacecraft pass

From: Robert Holdsworth (robbonz1@xtra.co.nz)
Date: Mon Aug 06 2007 - 06:20:53 EDT

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    Have been unable to post updates till now because of other commitments, but 
    it now appears that decay is likely to be tomorrow our time.  Thanks to 
    Daniel for updating the info on his website.
    
    It is still up there and we have some daylight passes again tomorrow our 
    time, so still worth watching:  first pass 1919 UTC if decay has not 
    occurred before then, it could in fact still be too high.
    
    But the time comes out somewhere in the middle between Space Track's updated 
    prediction and Daniel's one, so wait and see!     I will only be in a 
    position to report if anything is seen in which case I will make a point of 
    reporting, (and will be too excited not to!) otherwise I have other 
    commitments, so if nothing is heard  by around 1930 UTC you can assume that 
    all was quiet.
    
    Robert
    
    
    
    
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: "Robert Holdsworth" <robbonz1@xtra.co.nz>
    To: "Seesat List" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org>
    Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 6:35 AM
    Subject: Re: observe soyuz rocket and later progress spacecraft pass
    
    
    > The R/B should be due to decay soon.  I say "should be" because 
    > Space-Track information cannot be repeated here and isn't that helpful 
    > anyway.  Calsky initially showed this as decaying in the next few hours 
    > but now does not show any decay, a look at the predictions indicates some 
    > problem which is probably related to a problem with Space-Track's TLEs. 
    > No other information appears to be available from other sites.   It is 
    > interesting to note on Space-track the epochs when you ask for last 5 
    > elsets and for last elset!
    >
    >
    > Hopefully Daniel may be able to assist us again with his valuable and 
    > accurate work.
    >
    > 
    
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